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What is ISO 31050 and How Does it Guide Emerging Risk Management? 

Some business risks are so new and complex that there isn’t enough data to size them yet. Early evidence can be thin, sources can conflict, and definitions can keep shifting. Not even past loss data and stable benchmarks will help.   Take fraud + AI, for instance: a clear example of when emerging risks can be too new to make proper sense of them. For example, imagine you send money to someone you think is a colleague—they even call you on Teams and you can see ...

Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare: How Software Keeps You Audit-Ready

Regulatory compliance in healthcare covers the rules that protect patients, secure data, improve safety, and prevent fraud across providers, payers, and vendors. Following these rules shapes trust, reimbursement, and care outcomes across an organization, from bedside workflows to revenue integrity to partner oversight.   Regulatory compliance in healthcare is everyone’s issue--from IT to the frontline staff. Teams need clear owners, current policies, and proof of follow-through to ...

EU Deforestation Regulation Explained: How to Meet EUDR’s 2025–2026 Deadlines

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) keeps deforestation-linked commodities and products off the EU market. Enforcement begins on December 30, 2025 for medium and large companies, with micro and small companies following in December 2026.   There are seven relevant commodities covered by the EUDR (cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, and wood), and any products made from them must be deforestation-free and traceable to the specific ...

By |2025-10-24T19:03:48+00:00October 24th, 2025|EHS & Sustainability: EHS&S, Regulatory Compliance|

EUDR Compliance: How to Prepare for January 2026 Reporting

If you’re a medium- or large-scale enterprise and your EU supply chain touches timber and/or forest products, you’ll need to adhere to a new EU law: the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR/VO 2023/1115). Proposed by the EU Commission in 2024 and serving as a replacement of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR/EU 995/2010), EUDR requires companies to prove their in-scope products are deforestation-free. With forests covering ...

Build a Third-Party Risk Program That Prevents Disruption

Third-party issues are preventable with the right setup. A third party risk management program replaces scattered emails and spreadsheets with a centralized place for data, documents, and actions. With defined steps and a central point of control for review, approval, and distribution, work moves on time and creates audit-ready evidence. Key dates tie to alerts. This way, nothing critical gets missed.  The Third Party Risk ...

What Should Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training Cover?

Hard-to-get Taylor Swift tickets, special access to the hottest event in town, or upgraded hotel suites. Fabulous business perks or problematic bribes? It’s not always easy to tell. One thing for sure? It is illegal to offer, promise, or give a bribe; it’s therefore critical to get straight on clear definitions and practical signals to spot trouble early. That’s why anti-bribery and corruption online training ...

By |2025-10-29T16:17:51+00:00October 21st, 2025|Ethics & Compliance Learning|

What is a Whistleblower? 

“If you see something, say something,” goes the common adage. Enter whistleblowers, who both “see” and “say”. A simple way to answer what is a whistleblower is: an employee-type insider who raises a red flag about serious problems, like a law or regulatory violation, gross mismanagement, a big waste of funds, abuse of authority, or a risk to public health or safety. If you’re still ...

By |2025-10-17T13:11:06+00:00October 17th, 2025|Whistleblowing|

Business Continuity Healthcare: Why It Matters and How to Build It

Business continuity in healthcare means keeping clinical services, operations, and data moving when disruption strikes. It aligns people, processes, and technology so hospitals can continue care, communicate, and restore systems quickly. Readiness protects patients and limits downtime.   What happens to patient care when core systems go down?  Whether it’s unexpected staffing shortages, an air conditioning or HVAC failure, a cyberattack, a backup-generator failure during a ...

U.S. Hospital Regulatory Compliance: How to Prove It with Software

Hospital rules keep shifting. Whether it’s emergency room duties, billing protections, cybersecurity, behavioral health, AI, and financing, all have moving parts. Keeping up-to-date on what’s different today versus yesterday ensures compliance. To stay informed better, here's a brief snapshot of what’s recently changed regarding hospital regulatory compliance, what it means operationally, and how to easily prove compliance without creating busy work.   What kinds of protections do patients have ...

By |2025-10-13T16:44:59+00:00October 13th, 2025|Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC, Healthcare GRC|

What Are the Benefits of HIPAA Software?

To keep patient data out of the wrong hands, HIPAA software helps you reduce small mistakes that can lead to major breaches. Just one misaddressed email can expose protected health information and put a healthcare organization at risk.   Patient data is highly valuable to hackers because it contains information that’s often permanent, such as blood type, medical history, and health records. One healthcare record can ...